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the experience of reading in Britain, from 1450 to 1945...

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 √ Century of ExperienceEvidenceName of Reader / Listener / Reading GroupAuthor of TextTitle of TextForm of Text
 
1850-1899Alice Meynell recalls childhood reading: 'In quite early childhood I lived upon Wordsworth ... When I was about twelve I fell in love with Tennyson, and cared for nothing...Alice Thompson Alfred, Lord TennysonunknownUnknown
1850-1899Alice Meynell recalls childhood reading: 'In quite early childhood I lived upon Wordsworth ... When I was about twelve I fell in love with Tennyson, and cared for nothing...Alice Thompson John KeatsunknownUnknown
1850-1899Alice Meynell recalls childhood reading: 'In quite early childhood I lived upon Wordsworth ... When I was about twelve I fell in love with Tennyson, and cared for nothing...Alice Thompson Percy Bysshe ShelleyunknownUnknown
1850-1899How the young Alice Meynell gained her family's support for her writing: ' ... [in c. 1867 Alice Thompson] had shown ... [her poems] to an American friend of the family, ...Thomas Thompson Alice Thompsonunknown poemsManuscript: Unknown
1850-1899'For Tom Barclay, son of a Catholic rag-and-bone collector, the erotic episodes in the Douay Bible "aroused my curiosity as to sexual matters". He found some answers in s...Tom Barclay n/aBiblePrint: Book
1850-1899'For Tom Barclay, son of a Catholic rag-and-bone collector, the erotic episodes in the Douay Bible "aroused my curiosity as to sexual matters". He found some answers in s...Tom Barclay Ovid[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'For Tom Barclay, son of a Catholic rag-and-bone collector, the erotic episodes in the Douay Bible "aroused my curiosity as to sexual matters". He found some answers in s...Tom Barclay Juvenal[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899'For Tom Barclay, son of a Catholic rag-and-bone collector, the erotic episodes in the Douay Bible "aroused my curiosity as to sexual matters". He found some answers in s...Tom Barclay Catullus[unknown]Print: Book
1850-1899In Retrospect of an Unimportant Life (1934), the Bishop of Durham Herbert Hensley Henson reminisced about Browning's "A Death in the Desert": 'Sixty years have passed sin...Herbert Hensley Henson Robert BrowningA Death in the DesertUnknown
1850-1899'Allen Clark, the son of Bolton textile workers, found physiology books in the public library incomprehensible. A newspaper reference to Rabelais motivated him to borrow ...Allen Clark [unknown][physiology textbooks]Print: Book
1850-1899'Allen Clark, the son of Bolton textile workers, found physiology books in the public library incomprehensible. A newspaper reference to Rabelais motivated him to borrow ...Allen Clarke Francois RabelaisGargantua and PantagruelPrint: Book
1850-1899'Just a little note of this night. I had been working very hard and came to my room very late and tired, but took up a book, the "Fortunes of Nigel" and read on and on t...Margaret Oliphant Walter ScottFortunes of NigelPrint: Book
1850-1899'Newman Flower, born in 1879, was running from the classroom at Weymouth College to his housemaster's in a snowstorm when someone ... shouted: '"Tennyson's dead!" And in...school class at Weymouth CollegeAlfred TennysonIn MemoriamPrint: Book
1850-1899'After reading at the Athenaeum a section of Ruskin's autobiography, "Praeterita", published in instalments between 1885 and 1889, Grant Duff reflected [in diary for 14 A...Grant Duff John RuskinPraeteritaPrint: Serial / periodical
1850-1899'Through reading Unto This Last ... Violet Markham -- who was brought up at Tapton House, set in 85 beautiful Derbyshire acres -- began to realise that her luxuries were ...Violet Markham John RuskinUnto This LastPrint: Book
1850-1899'A grim account of the menage [at Theodore Watts-Dunton's home The Pines, Putney, where the poet Swinburne went to live after his health failed] was given to the poet Wil...Theodore Watts-Dunton Theodore Watts-DuntonpoemsUnknown
1850-1899'... Helena Swanwick recalled one exception from among the succession of inadequate domestic servants who passed through her household in the 1890s: "The best I had in th...George MeredithNovelsPrint: Book
1850-1899'I think the praise of the "Saturday Review" and the "Times" - evidently both are much dissatisfied with the book [George Eliot's "Felix Holt"] and neither daring to say ...Margaret Oliphant Review of 'Felix Holt the Radical'Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'I think the praise of the "Saturday Review" and the "Times" - evidently both are much dissatisfied with the book [George Eliot's "Felix Holt"] and neither daring to say ...Margaret Oliphant Review of 'Felix Holt the Radical'Print: Newspaper
1850-1899'Only yesterday morning he [Cyril Oliphant] was well enough to read out to me [Francis Oliphant] a little notice of his De Musset which appeared in Willie Tulloch's littl...Cyril Oliphant Notice of Cyril Oliphant's 'De Musset'Print: Advertisement, Newspaper


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